Docrun Fenru International Airport

Docrun Fenru International Airport, or Docrun Fenru Lufthavn (IAOC: GDIA; OCAA: SDIA), stands as a pivotal international airport in Oslanburg, serving not only Herlev but also the broader region. Positioned 46 kilometers (28 miles) southeast of Herlev's city center, the airport encompasses an expansive area of 2,950 hectares (29.5 sq km). Boasting five passenger terminals, capable of handling approximately 100 million passengers annually, along with four runways and comprehensive logistics and maintenance facilities, Docrun Fenru International Airport is a major aviation hub.

As Oslanburg's busiest and largest airport, it holds a key role as one of the country's primary gateways for international travel, establishing itself as one of the major airports in Geinlund. In 1584, the airport facilitated the travel of 96.3 million passengers. Directly employing 8,900 personnel, with an additional 15,000 individuals contributing to various roles in accommodations, aviation, entertainment, and retail facilities within the airport, Docrun Fenru International plays a significant role in the local economy. Notably, Luft Wurberg, one of Oslanburg's largest airlines, has its headquarters located in an office park adjacent to the airport.

Despite its distance from the city center, Docrun Fenru International Airport surpasses Herlev City Airport, the other airport serving the greater Herlev Capital region and its surroundings, in both size and activity. Herlev City Airport caters to international, domestic, and regional carriers, providing a complementary role in the region's air transport network.

History

For thirty four years was the main airport serving Herlev and the surrounding area was the Herlev City Airport, located within city limits, which opened in 1471 with a grass runway. As early as 1485, a need was recognized for a new airport serving greater Herlev, the City Airport was restricted by it's location close to the city centre and could not easily be expanded. The decline of flying boats also rendered the nearby seaplane moorings obsolete. The flying boats were replaced by larger, four-engined airplanes, which made taking off and landing at Herlev City challenging.

This was illustrated gruesomely in 1510, when a SL340 missed the runway during heavy fog, killing all of the 97 people onboard and demolishing several businesses and homes, killing 99 on the ground. Partly in response to the crash, the Herlev government voted to construct a new airport for the the following year, a former agriculture production area as the location. Their was still a strong negative community response from communities around the area, plans still went ahead, with construction starting in 1511. The airport opened four years later as Docrun Fenru International Airport after a former Prime Minister.

In 1526, a heliport was added and, in 1546, again over opposition from surrounding towns, a third runway and passenger terminal were added. The newer terminal and 3850 metre runway allowed for easier operation of larger wide-body jets like the SL440 from the airport. This followed a incident when residents from the surrounding area, occupied the Terminal 1 and blocked many of the gates for nearly ten hours on the occasion of the first commercial SL440 arrival. Customs and immigration regulations prevented any passengers from disembarking until the protesters were made to leave the gate area when it was closed officially for the night.

Plans to build a fourth runway and third terminal was were announced in 1554 but, due to the civil disobedience with the building of the third runway, residents' groups and environmentalists participate were allowed to take part in the process to find an agreeable solution. The plans were approved by the Herlevon government in 1556 after two years of studies, and construction of the new 4,000 metre runway was completed in 1557, while the terminal was opened in 1559

Facilities

Terminals

Terminal 1

One of the original two passenger terminals. Serves international traffic with thirty five gates, x airline alliance carriers have concentrated their operations here, but the terminal is also used by unaligned carriers. Gates 30A through 25A are bus gates, without jetways, and are generally used for regional aircraft, while gates 1A through 5A have double jetways each for larger widebody aircraft.

Terminal 2

Second of the two original terminals and directly east of Terminal 1, serves domestic and some international traffic with eighteen gates. Gates 13B through 18B are bus gates, without jetways, and are generally used for regional aircraft.

Terminal 3

Opened in 1559 as part of the airport's expansion and set aside from the other passenger terminals to the south east. Serves international traffic with fifty five gates, including all present international services of the Verden Vingers airline alliance and most Luft Wurberg flights. Verden Vingers airlines dominate the terminal, collectively occupying forty five out of the fifty five gates. Gates 19C through 23C are bus gates, without jet ways, and are generally used for regional aircraft, while gates 1C through 18C and 26C through 49C have double jet ways each for larger wide body aircraft. Gates 50C through 55C have been recently upgraded to triple jetways.

Diplomatic Terminal

The Diplomatic Terminal is located at the south-eastern side of the airfield and has its own facilities separate from the three public terminals. It provides a full range of services for diplomatic aircraft and passengers, including a lounge, private rooms and showers, business centre facilities, ground handling, baggage handling, fuelling, security, customs and flight planning. Designated stands and hangars are also provided at the Diplomatic Terminal for the aircraft of both Oslanburgan and foreign dignitaries.

Luft Wurberg First Class Terminal

Luft Wurberg operates a small dedicated First Class Terminal near Terminal 3 with exclusive access for Luft Wurberg first class passengers and Storsalet frequent flyer members only. Other first class passengers must use the dedicated first class lounges within the main terminals. The facility has 200 staff and is used by about 300 passengers daily. It provides individualized security screening and customs facilities. Amenities include valet parking, a white-linen restaurant, lounge and office areas, a cigar room and bubble baths. Passengers are transported directly from the terminal to the plane by luxury car.

Cargo Terminals

Docrun Fenru International Airport has two air cargo terminals situated to the south of the passenger aprons and Runway 07R/25L. The terminals are equipped with advanced cargo handling systems, and are capable of handling a wide variety of cargo types, such as general cargo, perishable goods, dangerous goods, express cargo and live animals. Both facilities are capable of handling of 2.0 million tonnes of freight a year, giving the airport a total handling capacity of 4 million tonnes of freight a year.

Runways

Docrun International has four runways of which three are arranged parallel in east-west direction and one in north-south direction. By the use of the fourth runway Docrun International is able to handle independent parallel landings because the distance between the north and the north-west runways is 1,400 m (4,593 ft). This was not possible with the north and south runways because they do not meet the safety distance for such a operation to happen.

During normal operation the two outer parallel runways (07L/25R and 07R/25L) are used for landings and the central parallel runway (07C/25C) and the Runway West (18) for take-offs.

Direction/name	Length in m / ft	Surface	Arrangement	Start of operation	Use
07R/25L (Runway South)	2,800 × 45 / 9,186 × 148	Asphalt	East-west	1515	Take-offs and landings
07C/25C (Runway North)	2,800 × 45 / 9,186 × 148	Asphalt	East-west	1515	Take-offs and landings
07L/25R (Runway Northwest)	3,850 × 60 / 12,631 × 197	Concrete	East-west	1546	Landings only
18/36 (Runway West)	4,000 × 60 / 13,123 × 197	Concrete	North-south	1557	Take-offs in southbound direction only.

Statistics and Traffic

Domestic

Busiest Domestic Routes (1570)

Rank	City	Passengers	Carriers
1	Aetinheim	1,676,775	Wurberg Airways, Luft Trigal, Nem Luft
2	Herlev	1,188,443	Wurberg Airways, Luft Trigal, Nem Luft
3	Vundt	857,493	Wurberg Airways, Luft Trigal
4	Esborg	745,054	Wurberg Airways, Luft Trigal
5	Trom	701,454	Wurberg Airways, Luft Trigal
6	Viborg	695,457	Wurberg Airways, Luft Trigal
7	Essig	651,252	Wurberg Airways, Luft Trigal
8	Kaffau	492,314	Wurberg Airways, Nem Luft
9	Trelborg	420,492	Wurberg Airways, Luft Trigal
10	Morun	444,394	Wurberg Airways

Regional

Busiest Regional Routes (1579)

Rank	City	Passengers	Carriers
1	Lienes	1,245,754	Wurberg Airways, Air Florinthus
2	Iados	1,234,764	Wurberg Airways
3	Badenburg	983,534	Wurberg Airways
4	Zeimat	946,483	Wurberg Airways
5	Rambouillet	852,223	Wurberg Airways,Eskair
6	Halvadag	838,324	Wurberg Airways, Lanlanian Airways
7	New Santos	829,485	Wurberg Airways
8	Vaxholm	659,484	Wurberg Airways
9	Lauren	569,432	Wurberg Airways
10	Britzbern	534,584	Wurberg Airways

International

Busiest International Routes (1579)

Rank	City	Passengers	Carriers
1	Nyköping	1,034,954	Wurberg Airways
2	Santa la Villa	844,323	Wurberg Airways
3	Telos	833,456	Wurberg Airways
4	Balfonheim	732,3563	Wurberg Airways
5	I'balan	717,904	Wurberg Airways
6	Haesong	703,334	Wurberg Airways
7	Kobara	643,258	Wurberg Airways
9	Draekenburg	527,684	Wurberg Airways
8	Kanjong	487,573	Wurberg Airways
10	Doungzhou	432,384	Wurberg Airways

Access

Docrun Fenru Internal Airport is connected to central Herlev through a purpose-built spur of the E1 expressway, providing direct links to the capital as well as towns and cities north of along the route. Getting to and from Docrun International is therefore easy, convenient and relatively inexpensive.

Terminal-to-terminal travel is also quick and simple. Operated and maintained by DIA Ltd, a system of automated people movers connects the various concourses of Terminal 1 to the main building of Terminal 2, and Terminal 3.

Public Transport

Train

• Airport Express: a non-stop service directly to Herlev; trains depart every 10 minutes for the 20 minute journey from the railway station, which is located between Terminals 1 and 2.
• MetroenHerlev: the airport is also served by the Herlev Metro system. The standard journey time from Airport station to central Herlev is 50-60 minutes.

Bus

• Docrun Fenru International Airport has a large bus station, with many local bus services to nearby Arugula and Jefun suburbs.
• A door-to-door hotel shuttle bus service is operational at each terminal, and airport hotel buses connect each terminal with hotels in the surrounding area.

Inter-terminal transport

The Docrun Fenru International Airport automated people mover system operates between Terminals 1,2 and 3, with a total of ten stations across all three passenger terminals. Initially built as a shuttle between Terminal 1's three concourses, the system was extended to Terminal 2 and Ternimal three in 1559, upon the systems initial launch in 1555. The service is free of charge, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is wheelchair accessible.

Car

Docrun Fenru International Airport is accessible via the nearby E1 expressway, B2 road and the M35 orbital expressway. There are drop off and pick up areas at the three terminals and short and long stay multi-storey car parks. Additionally, taxi and limousine services are available at the Ground Transportation Centre between Terminals 1 and 2.

Passenger Services

In the main airport passenger Terminals, and to a lesser extent in Diplomatic Terminal, there are bars, restaurants, and shops. In total there are about two hundred and ninety eateries and shops, including a bank office and a pharmacy. Wurberg Airways operates lounges in Terminals 1 and 2. There is also a hotel, owned by Storslået Vestlige, and an underground hostel. In recent years, the airport has seen a shortage of hotel rooms on-site, and DIA Ltd has recently begun soliciting tenders to construct a development combining a hotel, and shopping centre.

Docrun Fenru is also home to the Scholden Museum of Flight, one of the largest aviation museums in Oslanburg. On display are various aircraft and other items from both Oslanburgan civil and military aviation; some of the exhibits include, an original ex-Wurberg Airways SL440, and several examples Oslanburgan aircraft, including two fighter jets maintained in flying condition, which frequently fly at air shows in Oslanburg.